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The Grapes of Wrath

The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers. First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl mi

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“And the stars down so close, and sadness and pleasure so close together, really the same thing”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Sadness, Together, Deep

“I’m just pain covered with skin.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Personality, Self-Actualization

“Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“For man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, poor, helpful

“Up ahead they's a thousand lives we might live, but when it comes it'll only be one.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Choices, Life, opportunities

“Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Growth, accomplishments

“I'm just pain covered with skin.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, humanity, Suffering

“You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don't know what he looks like.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Religion, Beliefs

“Fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Sacrifice, Suffering, Fear

“It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: banks, Money, finances

“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do will make him feel rich.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: rich, poor, property, Disappointment

“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: humanity, Work, Create, Life

“The quality of owning freezes you forever in 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we'”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Possession, Selfish, individuals, Teams

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Past, Memories, Time

“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”

— John Steinbeck, amazon.com

Tagged: Sin, Virtue, humanity, Evil